From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 681-682.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.

JOHN F. BURLEY

John F. Burley, one of the prominent men of Washington district, 
Marshall county, was born in that county in 1842, the son of Joshua 
and Catherine (Roseberry) Burley.  His father was a native of this 
county, a farmer and coal operator in business, and influential in 
politics, serving two terms as sheriff of Marshall county.  He died 
in April, 1883, aged sixty-seven years, and his wife died in March, 
1889, at the age of seventy-six years.  They had four children:  
James; Sarah, deceased, wife of Robert Sweeney; John F., and Lizzie, 
wife of J. Clemens, of Belmont county, Ohio.  John F., was reared on 
the farm, and at the age of twenty-one years engaged in the livery 
business at Wheeling.  He continued at this several years and then 
returned to the farm, where he has since been occupied.  He was 
married in March, 1863, to Jane A. Alexander, daughter of Robert and 
Narcissa Alexander of Belmont county.  Her father was a prominent 
man, a member of the state legislature, who died in 1862, his wife 
having passed away in the preceding year.  Mr. and Mrs. Burley had 
nine children, two of whom died in childhood.  The survivors are:  
William, Kate V., wife of Drew Dorsey, of Allegheny City; Joseph, 
Charles, Sarah E., Rose C., and Gertrude.  Mrs. Burley died in 
January, 1884, at the age of forty-one years.  She was a devoted 
member of the Presbyterian church.  Mr. Burley is a member of the 
Masonic order, and in politics a democrat.    

(Linda Fluharty)